LSU Senior Postdoc Receives Japanese Young Scientist Award
The Physical Society of Japan, JPS, has awarded Dr. Hikaru Ueki, senior post-doctoral researcher in the Hearne Institute of Theoretical Physics at Louisiana State University, the Young Scientist Award for his research in the field of superconductivity and low temperature physics.
Ueki’s award winning research “Study of superconductivity and related phenomena by development of microscopic theories” received the award in the JPS Division 6 category for metal physics and low temperature physics.
The Young Scientist Award was established to encourage the research of outstanding young researchers who will contribute to the future of physics and to further invigorate the Physical Society of Japan. Ueki is invited to give a commemorative talk following the award ceremony at the JPS Spring meeting in March 2025.
The award was given to Ueki for the following publications:
(i) Charging in a Superconducting Vortex Due to the Three Force Terms in Augmented Eilenberger Equations, Hikaru Ueki, Marie Ohuchi, and Takafumi Kita, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 87, 044704 (2018), https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.87.044704
(ii) Possibility of chiral d-wave state in the hexagonal pnictide superconductor SrPtAs, Hikaru Ueki, Ryota Tamura, and Jun Goryo, Physical Review B 99, 144510 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.144510
(iii) Electromagnetic response of disordered superconducting cavities, Mehdi Zarea, Hikaru Ueki and J. A. Sauls, Frontiers in Electronic Materials 3, 1259401 (2023), https://doi.org/10.3389/femat.2023.1259401
Ueki studied microscopic theory of the Hall effect and vortex-core charging in type-II superconductors, graduating with his PhD in 2017 from Hokkaido University in Japan. He also studied superconducting pairing symmetry in SrPtAs, a candidate for chiral d-wave superconductors, at Hirosaki University as a post-doctoral researcher from 2018 - 2020.
Currently he is working on calculations of the frequency shift and quality factor of the Niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavity and the sensitivity of this SRF cavity to light-by-light scattering in nonlinear QED, weak coupling of dark matter candidates to microwave photons, or high-frequency gravitational waves.
The Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan was founded in 2006 to recognize outstanding young researchers as the future leaders in physics. Candidates are nominated independently by the Selection Committee in each division, and winners are decided by the Board of Directors. Ueki is invited to give a commemorative talk following the award ceremony at the JPS Spring meeting in March 2025.
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Mimi LaValle
LSU Physics & Astronomy
225-439-5633
mlavall@lsu.edu